Chapter 257: Digging Sweet Potatoes
Yesterday, I took a video with Zhong Tao, and after he reminded me, I remembered that the sweet potatoes in my field had not been dug up yet.
Seeing that October is almost over, if you don't dig it, God has a bad temper. It's raining for you for a week, so it's all rotten?
The sweet potatoes in the old man's field were all dug up before Chengxin came back.
A lot, not 10,000 catties, but also thousands of catties.
After all, the old man fed a few pigs, not a lot of sweet potatoes, and the pigweed in winter was not as easy to cut as in previous quarters.
After eating in the morning, Chengxin took a lawn mower and went to the field where he planted sweet potatoes.
They were all grown to eat by themselves, and there were not many of them, so Chengxin didn't call Zhong Tao to come over to help.
If you collect it by yourself, you should exercise yourself, otherwise you will get fat if you eat and lie down every day.
When he came to the field, Chengxin first used a lawn mower to cut all the few sweet potato vines in the geography, and then broke them into a small bundle and put them on the side.
Sweet potatoes, in fact, don't need to take care of it, but it can't be said that you don't need to care about it at all.
To plant a sweet potato, you have to apply manure with fertilizer once from the beginning of the seedling planting.
In the middle, depending on the situation, one or two fertilization is enough.
In the village, it is basically watered with manure and nitrogen fertilizer once, and then some grass ash and chicken and duck poop in the chicken pen are applied.
However, sometimes depending on the growth situation, the manure water is applied more than once.
After the sweet potato vines are dense and the sweet potatoes in the field have begun to bear fruit, it is necessary to slowly turn the sweet potato vines according to the situation. By the way, pinch some down and feed the pigs.
In this way, there should not be too many vines, robbing the nutrients of sweet potatoes, and you can also feed your own pigs or something.
To be honest, Chengxin's sweet potato, except for fertilizing twice and hoeing grass twice, he didn't care much.
Turn over sweet potato vines? Once it was grandma who came over to feed the pigs, and he accidentally saw that Chengxin's sweet potato vine was too lush, so he came over to cut some.
Another time was when he was out. Zhong Tao flipped it for him.
Now in the sweet potato field, there are about 40 nests planted, and there are two varieties.
There are three kinds in the village, one is red-skinned and white-hearted, and the leaves are relatively large, called blood leaves.
One is yellow-hearted, with a slightly pointed blade, like a duck's foot board.
Both of these sweet potatoes are grown and eaten.
For example, making sweet potato flour, cooking porridge and dry rice, and making dried sweet potatoes.
The rest is planted to feed the pigs. This sweet potato doesn't taste good and isn't as tasty as the first two.
However, the advantage is that the yield is high, and feeding pigs is very suitable.
Chengxin also doesn't raise pigs, so these things are still forgotten.
There are not many nests, and there are not many vines, Chengxin didn't spend much effort to cut them all, leaving a piece of taproot of about ten centimeters, in order to be easy to identify.
In fact, according to the general norm, these cut sweet potato vines are to be left aside in the open space or slope to dry.
When the sun is almost dry, it will be taken back home and cut into finger joints a little longer.
Then, it is packed with a huge plastic film and sealed, which is similar to the reserve green storage.
In the homes of the villagers, the amount of storage is very large, a round plastic bag with a diameter of more than one meter, three meters high is not enough, and there is a bag on the side.
Digging sweet potatoes can't be rushed, you have to dig slowly from a certain distance.
Otherwise, if you don't pay attention, the sweet potatoes will be bad. In that case, the storage time will not last long.
Chengxin first dug up the blood leaves with relatively wide leaves, and when the first nest was dug up by Chengxin, Chengxin was startled.
It's not that I dug up something scary, but because the sweet potato was too big, Chengxin was surprised.
Under normal circumstances, there are only five or six in a litter, two or three large ones, and the rest are getting smaller and smaller.
From two fists to one fist, or even half a fist, there are also table tennis ball-sized ones.
But what about this first litter? As soon as I dug it out, there were four or five that were the size of two fists, and four or five that were bigger than a fist.
As for the smaller ones? Sorry, no.
Your sister, this nest can't be more than ten pounds? Higher yield than pig-fed hybrid sweet potatoes!
However, Cheng Xin was only a little surprised, and he was still a little prepared for the sweet potatoes grown by the spiritual liquid.
So, I started digging up.
However, digging sweet potatoes is not cutting wheat, this thing has to be dug next to each other, it can't be said that only the sweet potato nest has to be dug up, and the surrounding ground has to be dug together.
For example, when the villagers dig a field of sweet potatoes, when the sweet potatoes are dug up, the whole field is also turned over once, and soon there is no need to plow the ground for any other crops planted.
When Cheng Xin dug up the twenty nests of blood leaves, he knew that there were a lot of sweet potatoes planted this time, and he would definitely not be able to eat them until they were spoiled.
If you don't have more, you can do more, and there are ways to eliminate them
Then Chengxin began to dig yellow sweet potatoes again.
This time, with the reference just now, Chengxin also has expectations for the production of Huangxin.
The result did not disappoint Chengxin, the first nest was dug out, six sweet potatoes, all about the same size, big fists, fifteen or sixteen centimeters long, and very uniform.
The shape of the two sweet potatoes is a little different, the blood leaf is a little rounder, and the yellow heart is longer.
In more than an hour, Chengxin successfully dug out all the sweet potatoes in the field.
Then clean up the mud from the top next to each other, pick out the broken ones and put them aside.
Although Chengxin is cautious, there are still some that have been damaged by him.
After cleaning one, put it in a basket, put it in a basket, and carry it back to pile it in the utility room!
Back and forth several times, Chengxin finally finished all the sweet potatoes and returned them to the warehouse.
Two piles of sweet potatoes are stacked in the utility room, and the weight, a thousand catties must not be there, but there are still four or five hundred catties.
On average, a litter of ten catties, this yield is a bit scary.
You must know that the sweet potatoes fed to pigs are close to two or three thousand plants per acre, and the yield is only eight or nine thousand catties at most, and it is possible to have better varieties of 10,000 catties.
This plant is only three or four catties, not five or six catties at most.
Chengxin has doubled.
However, Chengxin felt that it should be the influence of the spiritual liquid, and that he was not so densely planted.
After receiving so many sweet potatoes, Chengxin still has a lot of money.
I took a sip of tea and took out my phone to rest for a while.
As soon as the result was unlocked, when I saw that it was almost ten o'clock, there was a message from Su Xue.
Since a few days ago, Chengxin has sent two messages to Su Xue every morning, but he forgot to dig sweet potatoes today.
Unexpectedly, I didn't send it, but the other party did send it.
It's just two messages, and there are no missed calls, so it shouldn't be fine.
"When I woke up in the morning, I remembered that the sweet potatoes in the geography had not yet been harvested, so I went to dig sweet potatoes early in the morning."
Chengxin replied.
Not long after it was sent, Su Xue replied to the message.
"Oh, do you want me to come over and help? I'm fine, I bragged and chatted with Hu Ying in the office in the morning. ”
"Hehe, okay, but I don't need to dig sweet potatoes, I've done it all in the morning."
"In the afternoon, let's dig up the broken peel and send it to the rice room to get some sweet potato flour back."
"Why don't you come over now and roast ribs for you at noon?"
Anyway, Su Xue is fine, it's okay to come over and help, men and women match, don't you get tired of working? And it's not too much work.
"I can't come, don't try to raise me as a pig, huh."
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! This girl.
However, Chengxin did not force it.
After chatting for a while, Su Xue went to cook, and Chengxin also got up to cook.
It's easy to order at noon today, next pot of noodles, plus two poached eggs.
He can't eat a pot, but isn't there still a little white at home?
Not long after eating, Chengxin was still thinking about taking a nap, but he didn't expect Su Xue to come over.
"So early? Don't sleep for a while? Why don't you take a nap together? Cheng Xinle looked at Su Xuedao, who was sitting down.
"Rascal, I don't sleep."
"By the way, what about sweet potatoes? How much is it? ”
Su Xue is now a little immune to Chengxin's mouth, and after beating Chengxin, she asked about sweet potatoes.
"It's on the edge of the sink, and I thought you had to take a nap, so I didn't wash it."
"I really don't sleep for a while, it's not much, it's more than 100 catties and less than 200 catties, it's very fast."
Originally, Chengxin was going to make a hundred catties of sweet potatoes, but after thinking about it for a while, it was better to get a little more. ”
After the sweet potato flour is beaten, it can be dried and then made into some vermicelli.
It turns out that when I was a child, on the street, I could hear from time to time, cold noodles, cold skin, hot and sour noodles.
I don't know when, this voice changed, it became a cold noodle and a cold skin pot and an artichoke, and the hot and sour noodles were gone.
Anyway, Chengxin has been in the town several times, but he hasn't seen anyone selling hot and sour noodles.
But without a pig killer, can you still eat hairy pigs? If others don't sell it, then do it yourself.
"Don't lie down, teach me how to do it, I haven't done it yet."
Su Xue hadn't made sweet potato flour or anything, so she thought it was fun.
“!
Don't worry, this thing is washed and peeled, and the rest of the process is to beat the rice room into a pulp, nothing fun. ”
But in the end, he was pulled up by Su Xue to work.
Fill the sink with water, then pour the sweet potatoes into it and wash it.
Rural cleaning of sweet potatoes can be done without hand washing.
A special tool for washing sweet potatoes in every household in the village, bamboo roots.
That is, take a bamboo pole of more than one meter to lengthen the root of the root system.
It's like a crutch.
Every time you wash a sweet potato with mud, soak a bunch of sweet potatoes in water and then pound it vigorously with your stuff.
But this is not completely clean.
After all, sweet potatoes are not smooth either. There are depressions, and there are country rotors, that is, there are small eyes, and there are mud in them.
So you have to sharpen it, dig out the mud in your eyes.
The two of them would hold a peeler at one time, and a knife at the same time turn the mud in the small hole.
Chengxin felt that it didn't take long for him to take care of a hundred and dozens of catties of sweet potatoes.
In the end, he carried it to the rice beating room with a basket, and it was full of two large baskets.